Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this
entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans
and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald
Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation
Hall Jazz Band, and others. They discuss the origins of jazz and the life and
music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of
Armstrong throughout his long career and some rare recordings, including audio
from a 1957 CBS television documentary with Edward R. Murrow.
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About the Author

Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is primarily known as a radio theater dramatist, but his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television, as a producer, director, writer, actor, and even cartoonist. In 1971 his father bought him a cassette recorder, on which he created his first audio story, Willoughby and the Professor, acting all the voices himself at the age of twelve. In 1975 Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear and many other Hanna-Barbera and Jay Ward cartoon characters, dubbed himself Bevilacqua’s personal mentor after hearing a 120-minute cassette of Willoughby improvisations. Since 1980 Bevilacqua has produced many award-winning radio programs for National Public Radio, Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, and others.

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